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In reply to the discussion: I Am Pissed Off Today [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)I don't mean it so directly as I think you understood me to say.
I mean that overall corporate greed, by most of the biggest ones, is lessening our quality of life in this country as a whole. You would be able to charge a reasonable amount if people could afford it. Those people could afford it if they were able to get a decent wage. A lot of people work for a terrible wage at places owned by big corporations.
Those corporations and their CEOs don't pay their fair share of taxes so the working people pay a lot more in taxes than they should have to. Smaller businesses have to pay for employees health care when that should be taken care of by a single-payer system.
It all trickles down. Trickle down theory does work, just not in the way the GOP told us it did.
I'm not blaming small businesses, I'm looking at the big picture. We need a major overhaul in how this country operates and I don't see that happening any time soon. If it were going to happen it would've happened when a Dem became president after the disaster known as GWB, but that Dem chose to go along to get along and I don't know when we'll have that kind of enthusiasm for change again.